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Spacecraft Systems Engineer
Malin Space Science Systems
San Diego, CA
Dec 2021 - Present (3 years)
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Technical Project Manager, Volunteer
San Diego, CA
Sep 2018 - Present (6 years 3 months)
- Manage team of 50 students through the development process
- Develop and manage schedule with Microsoft Project
- Monitor project progress and budget through development of status reports
- Create and manage risk, issue, and opportunity processes
- Prepare and manage material for change control process
- Perform orbital mechanics analysis with MatLab
- Perform structural and thermal analysis on developed CAD models with SolidWorks
- Milestones: acquired fifty (50) student premium SolidWorks licenses, acquired ten (10) Altium Designer 19 licenses valued at $89,950
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Quality Engineer
San Diego, CA
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 3 months)
Develop plan to follow quality objectives, implement solutions to key processes, collaborate with engineering team on manufacturing procedures, readily took on additional responsibilities to meet deadlines
- Establish database for nonconforming product to report problems affecting technical engineering and business enterprise and increased on-time processing by 25% and completed processing by 65%
- Develop data management system to perform statistical process control and reduced report generation time by 85%
- Create user-interface and data structure to trend performance of 100+ external providers to drive major decisions across multiple departments
- Program automated Excel VBA scripts to analyze temperature data synthesized from .csv and .xlsx files
- Review manufacturing processes to ensure that design specifications and customer requirements are met
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Quality Inspector
San Diego, CA
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 (4 months)
-Conduct examinations and quality control inspections on products, materials and components at various stages of the production process to ensure compliance with established quality and reliability standards
-Perform visual inspections of molded components, mechanical inspections of mechanical assemblies and subassemblies
-Prepare and complete all necessary documentation for reporting acceptance/rejection of inspected and/or tested items
-Identify design, process or other inefficiencies and reports quality concerns and issues
-Perform routine quality inspections on engineering designs, assemblies, piece parts, final assemblies and tooling
-Conduct internal audits and corrective action follow ups
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Assistant Project Manager
San Diego, CA
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 (3 months)
- Manage team of 10 in the structural and electronical fabrication of a CubeSat
- Develop extensive documentation of project development and deliverables
- Perform and present analysis on data collected from quality testing
- Milestones: 80,000 ft sounding balloon launch, 10 mi test of a Long Range transceiver, dual 42,000 ft super pressure balloon launch, -60 degree C cold soak test of equipment
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Team Lead - Propulsion
UCSD CubeSat Club
San Diego, CA
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018 (9 months)
Managed a team of five students to design, test, and implement a propulsion system for a 1U CubeSat.